[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 1]
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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            CANCER RESEARCH

  (Mr. HIGGINS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HIGGINS. Mr. Speaker, I bring to this House and the Nation great 
news from Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. Roswell Park is the 
first comprehensive cancer institute in the entire Nation.
  Today, they are launching a clinical trial to test the use of a 
cancer vaccine as therapy to kill cancer cells and to prevent a relapse 
of the disease. The vaccine is designed to boost the body's immune 
system to fight and destroy cancer cells.
  The vaccine has shown early promise in treating ovarian, bladder, 
brain, and breast cancer. The vaccine's exciting potential is a direct 
result of many years of cancer research. For cancer research to be 
effective, it has to be sustained over the longer term. It can't stop 
and start because you lose promising research and promising 
researchers.
  So my message to Congress today is that the only failure in cancer 
research is when you quit or you're forced to quit because of a lack of 
funding. I urge my colleagues to fully fund cancer research in the 2012 
budget.

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